Business
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These Companies Are Hiring Seasonal Workers for the Holidays
Major retailers and shipping services like Target and UPS are beginning seasonal hiring sprees ahead of the holidays, when they’ll need all the help they can get. Looking for a job? Companies that are hiring in a major way include…
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Historic Banks Beautifully Transformed Into Hotels, Restaurants, and More
With the rise of mobile banking, many bank buildings — including some architectural gems — have been repurposed into restaurants, hotels, bars, shops, breweries, and even arcades. Many retain their original 19th and 20th century design, with the financial institutions’…
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Things You Should Never Try to Sell on eBay
With 138 million active buyers, eBay is one of the largest online marketplaces in the world, and one of the most visited shopping platforms in the United States. That makes it a great place to earn extra cash as selling…
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Big Names That Changed With the Times to Avoid Being Canceled
Companies, products, and artists continually reinvent themselves to keep up with consumer preferences and ensure they’re on the right side of history. Rebranding and other such changes are nothing new but have taken on a new urgency in the face…
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18 Biggest American Sports Scandals
Remember your Little League coach telling you to “just go out there and have fun” or your parents cheering for you during your first pee-wee basketball game even though you could hardly dribble the ball? Maybe you still get chills…
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The Surprising Reasons These Companies Changed Their Brand Names
Companies’ reasons for choosing new names and logos vary from the banal — corporate restructuring — to the extraordinary: fraud, disasters, or scandal. Changing a company’s long-standing name isn’t without risk, and these days rebranding comes with a fair amount…
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Giant Companies You Didn’t Know Are Family-Owned
These are the mom-and-pop stores on steroids, huge companies that embraced nepotism to build some of the strongest brands on the planet. To categorize a public company as a family…
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19 Billionaires Who Didn’t Go to College
A university education is far from the only path to success — just ask the nearly 30% of living billionaires who never got even a bachelor’s degree. There’s also a…
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Stores and Brands You Thought Were Dead But Aren’t
The pandemic accelerated bankruptcies among retailers in a big way, and even before that, many familiar names were hurting. But that doesn’t mean your favorite stores and brands are out of the…
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Costco by the Numbers: 22 Surprising Stats
Costco is the nation’s third-largest retailer in market share, behind Walmart and Amazon according to the National Retail Federation. The company’s net sales topped a whopping $140 billion in 2021, up…
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Walmart Teams Up With UnitedHealth To Give Senior Health Care a Boost
Walmart tries to deliver deals on everything from video games to groceries, and now it hopes to add primo medical care to the list. The retail chain has partnered with…
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These Big-Name Companies Still Pay Most Workers Under $15 an Hour
Ten states have or are planning to institute a mandatory minimum wage of $15 an hour, and California just enacted a law on Labor Day that creating the first-in-the-nation fast food…
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TikTok’s ‘Quiet Quitting’ Trend Is Changing the Way We Talk About Work
Amid an uptick in unionization efforts, a tight labor market, and growing employee disengagement, an internet trend called “quiet quitting” has ignited another debate between old and young, boss and…
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25 Times Companies Promised More Than They Could Deliver
Most companies want nothing more than to drum up demand. Special promotions and flashy launches are one way to create buzz, even if the product ends up flopping. Other times,…
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These Companies Are Supporting Abortion Access for Employees
The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in late June, ending 50 years of federally backed abortion rights. Activists are up in arms, and several companies have stepped forward to ensure abortion…
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These Giant Companies Picked Up and Left Their Home States
Over the past few years, a number of U.S. companies have relocated their headquarters out of their home states, especially tech companies. Many have bid farewell to California in favor…
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The Most Expensive Typos in History
To err is human, but sometimes even the most innocent of mistakes lead to big, expensive consequences. Typos have led to million-dollar lawsuits, the collapse of businesses, and ending up…
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Competing Brands That Are Owned by the Same Company
Between big-box stores and online retailers, U.S. consumers have access to a wealth of options for most any product they wish to buy. Sometimes, however, the choices aren’t as varied…
